THE LATEST RUSSIAN DOOMSDAY DEVICE

The latest Russian Doomsday Device having been christened "Status-6" is designed to destroy carrier task forces and American Ports leaving them unusable for tens of years. This would destroy the American economy because the ports are essential for trade. American submarine commanders will be in a pickle once this weapon is deployed. For example an American Submarine undoubtedly sank the Kursk. This weapon is designed to stop such attacks from occurring again by significantly upping the ante for conducting such an attack.

When a Cobalt salted "Status-6" is operating off American Shores in the near future and American commanders decide to pull a Kursk they will have to think twice because to do so will create an ecological disaster off the coast of the United States. This will render large parts of American fishing grounds and ports unusable for decades. Members of congress are already crying foul and are demanding a treaty to ban such weapons. Although a treaty is highly unlikely. This weapon system is the only viable counter American stealth satellite attack.

Given the reported 100 Megaton yield of the weapon it is also designed to destroy whole fleets. The image above from the Operation HARDTACK tests in the 1950's shows what an 8 Kiloton device can do. Being several orders of magnitude larger a 100 Megaton device will cause a tidal wave much larger, about 500 meters tall, a carrier task force may not be safe within a few hundred miles of the "Status-6." The outline of the Liberty Ship in the photo gives some idea of the scale of the 8 Kiloton weapon. Liberty Ships are about half the length of a Nimitz Class Carrier. The 8 Kiloton Weapon had a devastating effect on the ship to say the least. The effect of a 100 Megaton cobalt salted weapon is unimaginably horrendous.

At 100 Megatons the Status-6 weapon is 2 times the size of the Tsar Bomba the largest weapon ever tested. When compared to the Hiroshima Bomb it is unimaginable.  

This move is completely logical given the fact Russians can not defend themselves from Stealth Satellite attack. Nor can they defend their own submarine fleet. The Kursk incident shows that to be the case. "Status-6" will insure the safety of the Russian fleet because a Kursk style disaster off the coast of the United States that releases large amounts of radioactive Cobalt will devastate the American Economy.  This system might even tax the limits of any chemical fueled ASW system of aircraft because the square mileage that they will have to cover will be immense. Fleet defense for the United States Navy will be nothing more than a fantasy, when the Russians deploy this weapon. The Russians have to do this in order to have a credible deterrent.

There is a silver lining to all of this. If U.S. Military ever does conduct a satellite surprise attack that takes out its own fleet, they now have a cover story to tell the survivors in the bomb shelters.

This weapon also shows the level of desperation the Russians have come to have. In order to deploy such a weapon means that the Russians are willing to destroy part of their own coast line. For this reason I suspect this weapon will be home ported somewhere in Siberia probably near Alaska where an American attack on the "Status-6" will be problematic for both nations.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a24216/pentagon-confirm-russia-submarine-nuke/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_torpedo#Status-6